West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-09-29

The fires of the stake have only been
the torches which Christ held in His
hand 10y the light of which the church has
marched 10 her present position. In the
sound OF racks and implem snts OF torture
hear thorunbling of the wheels OF the Gosos,l
chariot. Scaholds Of martyrdom have been
'.ie stairs by which the church has assembled.
Aqua FORTS is the best test of pure gold.
Furthermore our subject impressses US thu
SINS viii come 10 exposure. Long, long ago
had these brothers sold Joseph into Egypt
They had suppressed the crime, aud il was a
profound secret well kept by the brothers.
But suddenly the secret Is out The old
father hears that his son is i'm Egypt, having
been sold there by the malice of his
own brothers. How their cheeks must
ave burned and their hearts SUM
at che flaming out of this sup
pro SGD crime. The smallest iniouitV has
n thousand tongues, and they will blab out an
exposure. Saul was sent 10 destroy the
Canaanites, their sheep and the oxen. But
when he got down there among tho pastut,
he saw some fine sheep ana oxen too fat To
XII, aud so he thought he would steal them
He drove them toward home, but stopped
TO report TO the prophet how well lac had
executed his commission, when in the dis
'ance the sheep began TO bleat and the oxen
20 below. The secret was out and Samuel
said 30 the blushing and COMPOUNDED Saul:
what means the bleating of the sheep that
| hear and the lowing of the cattlem Ave my
hearers, you cannot keep an iniquity quiet
Az just the wrong time the sheep wiD
bleat and the oxen will below Achan ca,
not steal the Babylonish garment withou
getting stoned to death, nor Benedict Arnolc
betray his country without being execrateC
Tor all time. Look over the police arrests
these thieves, these burglars, these adulterers,
these assassins. They all thought
they could bury their iniduity 50
deep down that IL would never come TO res1Ir-
rectlon But there was some shoe that an
70 h.. ss..N -. 4 l..
Keys found in possession, some bloody knife
mat whispered of the deed, and the pub
Tic indignation, and the anathema OF
outraged law hurled him into the Tombs
or hoisted him on the gallows. At the close
OF the battle between the Dauphn OF France
and the Helvetians, Burchard Monk was so
eated with the victory that he lifted his
helmet TO look off upon the field, when
wounded soldier hurled a stone that struck
his uncovered forehead and he fell Sin will
always leave some spot exposed, and there is
40 safety in inquity. Francis the
FIRST, King OF France, was discussing how il
vas best to get his army into Italy. Amaril.
the court Tool, sprang out from the corner
ana SAID 70 the king and his staff officers:
\ on had better be thinking how Won will
get your army back out of Italy after once
you have entered In other words il is easier
TOT us 70 get into sin than to get out
OF IT, Whiteiield was riding on horseback i'm
d loheiy way with some missionary money i'm
"A
wayman sprang out from the thicket and nut
ms hand out toward the gold when White
held turned upon him and said THAT belongs
10 the Lord Jesus Christ, touch IL il you dare,n
ana anu the villain fell back empty handed into
the thcket. oh, the power of conscience
III offended, 1t becomes Gods avenging minis
Ter. DO not think that you can hide any
great and protracted sin in your hearts In
an unguarded moment it will slip off the lin
or some slight occasion NAV for n moment
set aJar this door of hell that You wanted 10
keep closed But suppose that i'm
TINS life You hide it, and you get along with
that tranSgression burning in your heart, as a
81 snip on hre WITHIN Tor days may hinder the
name from breaking out by keeping down the
nhtchwaysl yet at last, in the Judgment, that
inquiry Will blaze out before the throne of
God and the universe
Furthermore, learn from this subject the
lnseparable connection between all events
however remote. Lord Hastings was be
headed one year after he had caused the death
OF the Queens children, in the very month
the very day, the very hour and the very mo,
nlehe; ihere Is wonderful precision i'm
the Divine judgments. The universe is
only one thought of God. Those
things which seem fragmentary and
Isolated are only different parts of that
one great thought. How far apart seemed
these two events-Joseph sold TO the
Arabian merchants and the rulership of
Egypt. Yet you see i'm what n mysterious
way God connected the two i'm one plan So
all events are linked together. You
VINO are aged can look back and
group together a thousand things i'm
your life that once seemed Isolated
One undivided chain of events reached from
the Garden of Eden to the cross of Calvary
and thus up to heaven. There is a relation
between the smallest insect that huns in thu
summer air and the archangel on his
throne. God can trace a direct ancestral
line from the blue jay that last sprino
built its nest in tree behind the house
10 some one OF that flock of birds, which.
when Noah hoisted the ark's window with q
whirr and dash of bright wings went ont To
sing over Mount Ararat The tulips that
doomed this summer in the fower-bed we're
nurSed OF last winters snow-hakes The fur
IheTest star on one side the universe could not
look 10 the furtherest star on the other
side and say: " You are no relation To mo. y
Tor from that bright orb voice of Ioht
would ring across the heavens respondi5o.
. \ es, yes we are sisters Sir Sidney Smith
IN prison was playing lawn tennis in the
yard and the ball flew over the wall Another
ball containing letters was thrown back
ana so communication was opened with
the outside world and Sir Sidney esconed
IN time to defeat Bonaparte's Egyptian ex-
petition. What a small incident connectcd
with what vast RESULT Sir I.obert Peel from,
a pattern he drew on fine back of a rcvte
dinner pltte got the suggestions Of that
which led to tho important inven
ton by which calico is printed. Moth
ing III bOls universe swings at loose
endS Accidents are only God way
OF turning leaf in the book of his eternal
DEGREES. From our cradle to our grave there
IS a path all mark out Each event i'm our
NE rs connect with every other event i'm
our ne. Our loss may be TIE most direct
ROAD 70 our gain Our defeats and victories
arc twin brothers. The whole direction of
our life was changed by something
Whlch at the time seemed TO Won n
Urine, while some occurrence which
seemed tremendous affected you hut little
Inc Rev. DR.. Kennedy, of Basking Ridge.
New jersey, went into his pulpit one Sab
Dath and by strange freak OF memory for
got his subject and fofg 1t his text and i'm
great embarrassment rose before his audi
ence and announced the circumstance and de-
clared himself entirely unable % preach. then
lhunched forth In n few words of entroatv
and warning which resulted in the outbreak
ing OF the mghtic,t revival of religion over
known ln That State,a revival Ofrcligion That
resulted I'm churches still standing and Ina the
conversion OF large number Of mon who
entered the Gospel ministry who have
brought thoir thousands into the kingdom
or God Coils plans are magnificent
beyond nll comprehension. He mOlds as
turns aud directs us and VIC know it not
lhou auds OF years arc to Him but as the
uiEhJ oil shuttle. The most terrific occur
renee does not make God tremble, ani the
most triumphant achievement does not lift
Him into rapture That one great thouZhto Of
God goes ON through the centuries. an nations
rise nnd fan, and eras pass. AMI the world
itself changes bit God still kceps tho undi-
Vided mastery. linking event to- event and